Web Ads with Sound?

Mina asks: "Just noticed that some sites, About.com in particular, started piping sound adds in their pages - one in particular (the Harry Potter themed CocaCola subsidized reading campaign from Reading is Fundamental). This isn't something that can easily be turned off - unlike popups, they can't just be clicked on or elminated by a nifty browser plugin. I'm interested in seeing how the Slashdot community deals with the new, more annoying ads that the more desperate companies are implementing now. Do you just live with them? Are there even niftier plugins to the browsers that I'm just not aware of?" And you thought pop-ups were the worst, now you can get sudden and annoying sounds played as well. Maybe browsers will have volume sliders bundled with them in the near future. God, I hope not, but if such ads become commonplace, it may be a good idea.

Comments

Konqueror

[FroMan]

Well, Konqueror already allows for certain sites for cookies. Why not just add the same feature for music? Seems like a really simple fix to me. One of the best things the Konqueror team does is add really cool things to avoid annoying things like this.

I started doing this when people started with MIDI

[ivan256]

Run your browser as a different user that doesn't have permissions to /dev/dsp

That way you can keep using all your sound generating apps without your browser butting in.

Unfortuantly all you windows users can't do this...